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Mobile User – Business Challenges

Growing trends in the use of mobile devices for business has exposed many challenges faced by mobile users. With revealing these issues, businesses (both on the development and supplier fronts) need to ensure mobile users can effectively and efficiently use their mobile devices to get the work done. Businesses also need to ensure their own employees are geared up appropriately if the environment is flexible to allow and encourage work on the road and / or at home through mobile devices.

Here is an interesting infographic from harmon.ie highlighting survey data on what challenges mobile users face. Businesses should take note and adjust accordingly.

84% of Mobile Users cannot work effectively on the road (platform? programs?)

App Data

App development, sales and downloads for mobile devices are booming. The app data, from Marketing research firm M2 Research, has been predicted to blow past the $6 Billion mark in 2012 for mobile gaming apps alone.

This infographic from app-promo.com , breaks down the slim minority of app developers who are making a go in app development businesses, while the majority of app developers struggle. A key fact in this infographic, those entrepreneurs who spend more on marketing to promote their apps, have better success. Here are some highlights on mobile apps and app developers:

12% earn $50,000 or more per year

11% achieve 500,000 downloads or more

Top Earners spend an average of $30,000 on marketing

But:

80% of app developers don’t generate enough revenue for a stand alone business

Popular Apps for Business

Tools and resources are critically important in keeping your business operations competitive and efficient. Multiple functions require multiple solutions and tools to get the job done more effectively and efficiently. Thousands of apps are readily available to assist businesses and entrepreneurs in all functions such as sales tracking, marketing, financial management, project management, data backup and payment processing.

Some of the highlights of this infographic produced by Mavenlink include these popular apps in the following functional categories: